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Personal observation of symbols resembling letters from ancient runic alphabet seen in high altitude plasma discharges over Oklahoma on October 7, 2017. Used PicsArt editing software to accentuate the letter shapes definition. Original picture of sprites published by earthsky.org. http://earthsky.org/earth/red-sprite-oklahoma-paul-smith-oct-2017

A model of the atomic nucleus showing it as a compact bundle of the two types of nucleons: protons (red) and neutrons (blue). In this diagram, protons and neutrons look like little balls stuck together, but an actual nucleus (as understood by modern nuclear physics) cannot be explained like this, but only by using quantum mechanics. In a nucleus which occupies a certain energy level (for example, the ground state), each nucleon can be said to occupy a range of locations.

Stone Tornadoes (lithified vortices) are revealed in this ridge road-cut that skirts a rural highway near Sipsey, Alabama. The ridge rises some 300 feet above the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior river to its south, and 45 feet above the highway roadbed. The features were exposed when highway engineers excavated the eastern tip of the ridge during the project to widen Alabama state Hwy 78 to a 4-lane divided highway.